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On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. |
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> > Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget |
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> > about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. |
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> > When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails |
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> > and everything thereafter fails. |
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> > I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit |
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> > the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was |
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> > what I had to do. |
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> > I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was |
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> > happening. |
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> me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of |
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> the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( |
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> Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from |
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> it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update |
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> But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. |
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I'll say :-) Actually, sometimes I think MKNOD was really cool and just do |
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everything static. |
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I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this |
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was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping |
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off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 |
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minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to |
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use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks, |
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really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty |
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on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a |
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phone) :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |